Launchpad itself

Project file uploads timeout (and often do not OOPS)

Bug #194558 reported by Brad Crittenden on 2008-02-22

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This bug affects 24 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Launchpad itself	Triaged	High	Unassigned
	Linaro Infrastructure Misc	Invalid	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

A user reported problems uploading a 12MB file to the 'freevial' project and receiving no OOPS but instead:

"Please try again
Sorry, there was a problem connecting to the Launchpad server.
Try reloading this page in a minute or two. If the problem persists, let us know in the #launchpad IRC channel on Freenode.
Thanks for your patience."

Tom H. looked at the Apache logs and found:
https://pastebin.canonical.com/2732/

A search for others reporting the problem found:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37770

The Apache server receives the fully uploaded file before passing it on to Launchpad. The upload died before finishing therefore there was no chance for an OOPS to be generated.

OOPS-6acb6414862499859f26aef311dc7bd3

See original description

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Joey Stanford (joey) wrote on 2008-02-22:

Searching the logs, Tom has found a high number of instances of the error in the above pastebin.

There appears to be two issues at work here:

1) A possible apache issue causing (at least) upload failures

2) A lack of apache error log integration with our oops tools which allow us to detect these errors and correct them. Users instead see the unplanned-offline.html file with no OOPS generated to let us know there was actually an issue.

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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote on 2008-02-23:

See bug #193062 for another case of OOPSes that look like apache timeouts.

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote on 2008-09-10:

Any updates on this? People are complaining about it fairly often...

Curtis Hovey (sinzui) on 2009-10-21

affects:	launchpad-foundations → launchpad-registry
Changed in launchpad-registry:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged

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Albert Cervera i Areny - http://www.NaN-tic.com (albert-nan) wrote on 2010-02-25:

I'm having the same issue uploading a file of 40Mb in openobject-client-kde project. I've uploaded files that large in the past without problems. Anything I can do?

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote on 2010-02-25:

A faster connection is about all that can be done, and that is not always an option. There can be connectivity issues between you and launchpad that may resolve themselves.

You could place the file in another public location (http or ftp), then set the filereleaseglob for the series find just the files you want to upload. The product-release-finder runs once a day and looks for files that match the glob. It will match the file name to the milestone and add the file for you.

Francis J. Lacoste (flacoste) on 2011-09-23

Changed in launchpad:
importance:	Low → Critical
tags:	added: escalated linaro removed: infrastructure lp-registry

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote on 2011-09-24:

It may be easiest to fix this by moving uploads out of the zope appservers, which our infrastructure is not geared around supporting big uploads too. E.g. upload directly to the librarian, then register the content with LP (/handwave)

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Abel Deuring (adeuring) wrote on 2011-09-26:

I could reproduce the problem when I truied to upload an ordinary Linux source code tarball to qastaging, using a somehwaht crappy mobile phone internet connection. The error occured around 1630..1640 UTC, 2011-09-26 (sorry, I did not watch the browser window closely enough to have a more precise time...) Problem: It seems that we don't get an OOPS report.

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Abel Deuring (adeuring) wrote on 2011-09-26:

next attempt failed 2011-09-26, 1703UTC

Graham Binns (gmb) on 2011-09-27

Changed in launchpad:
assignee:	nobody → Graham Binns (gmb)

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Joey Ye (jinyun-ye) wrote on 2011-12-01:

Reproduce this bug by uploading a source tarball 130m in size. Time was about 1000UTC 2011-11-30

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Andrew Stubbs (ams-codesourcery) wrote on 2011-12-08:

#10

unhelpful error message Edit (52.0 KiB, image/png)

I'm getting the same problem trying to upload a 70MB file to the gcc-linaro project.

Joey Stanford (joey) on 2011-12-08

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added: arm

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote on 2011-12-08:

#11

Andrew succeeded using firefox from a different machine, was failing from chrome. May be irrelevant. Also reports a delay between the browser completing the upload and the error.

Graham Binns (gmb) on 2012-01-05

Changed in launchpad:
assignee:	Graham Binns (gmb) → nobody

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Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo) wrote on 2012-01-17:

#12

Maybe finally can timeout made longer waiting?

Robert Collins (lifeless) on 2012-02-22

summary:	- Project file uploads time-out but don't OOPS + Project file upload timeout (and often do not OOPS)
description:	updated

Alexander Sack (asac) on 2012-07-23

Changed in linaro-infrastructure-misc:
milestone:	none → backlog
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Triaged

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Markus Klyver (markusklyver) wrote on 2012-09-29: Re: Project file upload timeout (and often do not OOPS)

#13

I get the HTTP 502 error message when trying to send >30 MiB bug reports.

William Grant (wgrant) on 2012-10-22

tags:

added: webapp-infrastructure

Curtis Hovey (sinzui) on 2013-01-11

tags:

removed: escalated

Данило Шеган (danilo) on 2013-01-23

Changed in linaro-infrastructure-misc:
milestone:	backlog → none

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote on 2013-05-16:

#14

This post has an example of use modporter to handle uploads: http://blog.jazkarta.com/2010/09/21/handling-large-files-in-plone-with-ore-bigfile/

Milo Casagrande (milo) on 2013-08-23

Changed in linaro-infrastructure-misc:
status:	Triaged → Invalid

Lukasz (lukaszek130388) on 2016-05-16

Changed in launchpad:
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2016-05-16

Changed in launchpad:
status:	Fix Released → Triaged

Airkm (airkm) on 2019-02-24

information type:

Public → Private

William Grant (wgrant) on 2019-02-25

information type:

Private → Public

Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2020-03-02

summary:	- Project file upload timeout (and often do not OOPS) + Project file uploads timeout (and often do not OOPS)
Changed in launchpad:
importance:	Critical → High